“If there is any doubt concerning the nefarious undertones of subversiveness in these NGO dealings, [National Endowment for Democracy] NED founder reportedly said the following in the 1990s: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’ What was once done at night under the cloak of ‘imperialism’…

“He is from Al Raqqa which is an ISIS stronghold, but he works in Damascus as a construction labourer. He visits his wife and children every other weekend. He is allowed in and out, however his family is not allowed to leave Raqqa. He was asked to join them [ISIS], they pay generously. In dollars…however he…

“Every time the army comes in from the east, she said, they are attacked from the middle of Duma, although there would be no one in the streets, and they retreat. One of the residents witnessed that these rebels were coming out of sewer catch basins in thousands just as the army enters, and attack…

“The Ivy League bourgeoisie who sit at the helm of the non-profit industrial complex will one day be known simply as charismatic architects of death. Funded by the ruling class oligarchy, the role they serve for their funders is not unlike that of corporate media. Yet, it appears that global society is paralyzed in a collective hypnosis…

“Many did not anticipate the current courageous, comprehensive, and vital reaction of the Palestinian people to Israeli policies and practices in Jerusalem. Young Palestinians from the West Bank and Jerusalem, Gaza and Israel have overcome humiliating internal divisions to defend Jerusalem as a national cornerstone of the Palestinian liberation project – politically, religiously, symbolically, morally…

Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled their homes south of the second city Aleppo since a government offensive there began last week, a UN agency said on Tuesday. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said around 35,000 people had been displaced by the fighting. “Around 35,000 people are reported to have…